The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: are mine equals who give unto themselves their Will, and divest themselves
of all submission.
I am Zarathustra the godless! I cook every chance in MY pot. And only
when it hath been quite cooked do I welcome it as MY food.
And verily, many a chance came imperiously unto me: but still more
imperiously did my WILL speak unto it,--then did it lie imploringly upon
its knees--
--Imploring that it might find home and heart with me, and saying
flatteringly: "See, O Zarathustra, how friend only cometh unto friend!"--
But why talk I, when no one hath MINE ears! And so will I shout it out
unto all the winds:
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: De Vac clapped his hand over the child's mouth to
still his cries, but it was too late, the Lady Maud and
her lover had heard, and in an instant they were rush-
ing toward the postern gate, the officer drawing his
sword as he ran.
When they reached the wall De Vac and the Prince
were upon the outside, and the Frenchman had closed
and was endeavoring to lock the gate. But handicapped
by the struggling boy he had not time to turn the key
before the officer threw himself against the panels and
burst out before the master of fence, closely followed
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: from that friend of men of letters, Mr. Alfred Nutt, "there
in roaring London's central stream," and since the ballad
first saw the light of day in SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, Mr. Nutt
and Lord Archibald Campbell have been in public controversy
on the facts. Two clans, the Camerons and the Campbells, lay
claim to this bracing story; and they do well: the man who
preferred his plighted troth to the commands and menaces of
the dead is an ancestor worth disputing. But the Campbells
must rest content: they have the broad lands and the broad
page of history; this appanage must be denied them; for
between the name of CAMERON and that of CAMPBELL, the muse
Ballads |